Secret of a High Performance Work Culture: Engage, Commit, Grow! Published by Outskirts Press
Veteran business consultant and management facilitator Larry Smith introduces CEOs and management teams who are brave enough to remove their rose-colored glasses to take the steps they really need to take to create an ideal culture of spirited high performance in their firms.
Penn Valley, CA, January 16, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Author and successful management consultant Larry Smith today announced the release of Engage, Commit, Grow!, How to Create and Sustain a Culture of High Performance, published by Outskirts Press. Smith’s innovative, practical guide shows that the ultimate key to high performance is the engagement of one’s employees because that engagement begets commitment, and a company’s successful achievements follow employee commitment.
Smith describes the ideal high performance culture as one where, “The excitement is palpable…when you get out of bed in the morning, you can hardly wait to get to work.” In the ideal work culture that excitement occurs each morning with every employee, from mail room clerk to Chief Executive Officer.
Smith’s how-to guide not only gives a persuasive rationale for that ideal culture but also the practical steps necessary to achieve it. However, Smith points out that there are definite prerequisites to learning how to lead and manage such an engaged workforce.
First, one must be willing to unflinchingly face the work situation as it currently exists -- with no sugar coating, rationalization or justification. One must also accept, among other things, the idea that management does not have all the answers and that the people closest to the problem often have the best solutions to it.
Once these barriers to growth are out of the way, CEOs and management teams can begin to embrace the insights and initiatives the book presents to them, and then they can begin to create and sustain a culture of high performance. It is not difficult, Smith notes, but it does take courage.
How people are led determines their engagement, and their engagement determines their behavior. This lesson from Smith is a vital one for business.
Engage, Commit, Grow! is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble. For a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more, go to www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 978-1-4327-6320-6 Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream SRP: $24.95
Genre: Business and economics/leadership/workplace culture/management
About the author:
Larry Smith’s business career has been one of service to a variety of companies in the fields of marketing, advertising, consumer research, new product development and the facilitation of strategic planning, team building and empowerment. After directing client services for a new product “think tank” with such clients as Borden’s, General Mills, Green Giant, General Foods and Crown Zellerbach, Smith founded his own consulting practice to help companies develop long term strategies and short term action plans. He served as Tiburon Peninsula Foundation President and was Mayor of Tiburon, California. In 2001 he was named Tiburon’s Citizen of the Year. His website is www.theLarrySmithCompany.com.
For more information or to contact the author, also visit www.outskirtspress.com/engagecommitgrow.
Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of their rights, 100% of their profits, and 100% of the creative control. www.outskirtspress.com.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd. - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
Smith describes the ideal high performance culture as one where, “The excitement is palpable…when you get out of bed in the morning, you can hardly wait to get to work.” In the ideal work culture that excitement occurs each morning with every employee, from mail room clerk to Chief Executive Officer.
Smith’s how-to guide not only gives a persuasive rationale for that ideal culture but also the practical steps necessary to achieve it. However, Smith points out that there are definite prerequisites to learning how to lead and manage such an engaged workforce.
First, one must be willing to unflinchingly face the work situation as it currently exists -- with no sugar coating, rationalization or justification. One must also accept, among other things, the idea that management does not have all the answers and that the people closest to the problem often have the best solutions to it.
Once these barriers to growth are out of the way, CEOs and management teams can begin to embrace the insights and initiatives the book presents to them, and then they can begin to create and sustain a culture of high performance. It is not difficult, Smith notes, but it does take courage.
How people are led determines their engagement, and their engagement determines their behavior. This lesson from Smith is a vital one for business.
Engage, Commit, Grow! is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble. For a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more, go to www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 978-1-4327-6320-6 Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream SRP: $24.95
Genre: Business and economics/leadership/workplace culture/management
About the author:
Larry Smith’s business career has been one of service to a variety of companies in the fields of marketing, advertising, consumer research, new product development and the facilitation of strategic planning, team building and empowerment. After directing client services for a new product “think tank” with such clients as Borden’s, General Mills, Green Giant, General Foods and Crown Zellerbach, Smith founded his own consulting practice to help companies develop long term strategies and short term action plans. He served as Tiburon Peninsula Foundation President and was Mayor of Tiburon, California. In 2001 he was named Tiburon’s Citizen of the Year. His website is www.theLarrySmithCompany.com.
For more information or to contact the author, also visit www.outskirtspress.com/engagecommitgrow.
Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of their rights, 100% of their profits, and 100% of the creative control. www.outskirtspress.com.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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